Originally Posted by
Brattflyer
Slightly off topic, but noooo.. way would I tip the bag delivery person. They get paid by the mile, usually hauling several bags, and I guarantee aren't making minimum wage.
Where I live your "guarantee" would be wrong.
Would you tip UPS, Fed-Ex, or The Post Office.
In certain situations, I have tipped each of these, yes.
At the risk of further off-topic: When the UPS guys finds that I'm not at home, but knows that I might be found at the little coffee place in the two-block downtown of our little town and swings by, comes in and checks, then yes, I have tipped.
When I can call the postmistress of our little town's post office from the road to tell her I forgot to put a hold on the mail and she says "no problem" and does the paperwork herself, or when the mail in our box is too much after a couple of un-checked days and she puts the excess in the box for my business (instead of, as she would have a right to do, sending the mail back to the sender), etc., etc., then I make sure to bring her an occasional gift.
And yes, when the delivery guy here -- a place where the housing costs are very high and the wages very low -- hustles to get me my suitcase at 11:30pm., driving 20 miles in one direction from the airport with the next drop 50 miles the opposite way, then I both thank him, send him on his way with a soda or cup of coffee, and a tip.
Is there something wrong with that? Just seems the civil thing to do. Your mileage obviously varies, though.